aaronspink
Veteran
As a matter of fact, not only is there no evidence to support that conclusion but there is plenty that directly contradicts it. As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly the NPD stated that only around 14% of games sold in 2007 where PC games.
Ahh - here it is:
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50939
That is just a quick googled blog. If you need, I can spend more time trying to dig up the actual NPD press release.
And NPD matters why? They haven't counted a game I've bought in quite a long time. Nor do they count the vast majority of PC game revenue.
We've already established in previous discussions that NPD doesn't count at least $2 billion in PC game revenue just from MMOs.
AFAIK, NPD has no clue about steam or most other online content distro systems, no knowledge about the vast majority of the casual game market which is in general only sold through the web and not via stores.
NPD has a very limited data set relying pretty much solely on in store sales which greatly favors consoles in their numbers.
Aaron spink
speaking for myself inc.